Category: Leadership & Management

What is Delegation in Business? Delegation is widely understood to be the shifting of responsibility from one colleague to another (specifically between managers/team leaders and their team members). It occurs [...]

Making decisions is part of everyday life. From the small decisions like what to have for dinner, to those big choices such as what path to take in your career. [...]

Management skills are gaining increasing focus in the business world – in times of economic trouble, good management can have a huge impact on employee morale and productivity, enabling companies [...]

In this guest post, Adi Gaskell, Editor of the Chartered Management Institute's Management Blog, explains why management training should always be balanced with other career development opportunities to make the [...]

Mobile technology is creating a ‘grey area’ between people’s work and personal lives, with managers spending an average of 2.5 hours a week – adding up to three weeks over [...]

Research released recently by the Forum of Private Business has shown that many businesses are opting for ‘do-it-yourself’ measures in place of formal management training. A leading academic has warned [...]

An academic has warned that businesses who try to implement ‘do-it-yourself’ training to save money on their training budgets could end up costing themselves more than they save. Research by [...]

Lord Alan Sugar has been crowned the UK's nightmare career coach in a poll by the Institute of Leadership & Management. Just under a third (31%) of those surveyed chose [...]

Appropriate management training should be given to avoid workplace risks, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. According to Roger Bibbings, the Royal Society for the Prevention [...]